Finished /Brave New World/

diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp
index d65810b..96187aa 100644 (file)
--- a/book-list.lisp
+++ b/book-list.lisp
@@ -274,7 +274,16 @@ utterly worthless.")
   ("Heaven and Hell"
    :nonfiction 0
    "Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
-Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother."))
+Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.")
+  ("Brave New World"
+   :fiction 7
+   "A nice light read; the story is obvious and by the hundreth page
+the ending is clear, but it provided a bit of a break from heavier
+reading for me. I must say that anyone who has read *Brave New World*
+and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of
+an *Epsilon*. *1984* is perhaps easily misread, but *Brave New World*
+is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside
+the head with a hammer."))
  ((|Douglas| |Adams|)
   nil
   ("Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)" :fiction 8)